crayon | (verb) write, draw, or trace with a crayon | - |
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crimson | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, flush, redden |
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crispen | (verb) make brown and crisp by heating | Synonyms: crisp, toast |
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croon | (verb) sing softly | - |
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crown | (verb) be the culminating event | Synonyms: top |
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(verb) put an enamel cover on | - |
(verb) invest with regal power; enthrone | Synonyms: coronate |
(verb) form the topmost part of | - |
curtain | (verb) provide with drapery | - |
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cushion | (verb) protect from impact | Synonyms: buffer, soften |
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damn | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, imprecate, maledict |
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dampen | (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, soften, weaken |
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(verb) make moist | Synonyms: moisten, wash |
(verb) check; keep in check (a fire) | - |
(verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, deaden |
(verb) reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves) | - |
(verb) suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity | Synonyms: stifle |
(verb) deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping | Synonyms: damp, dull, muffle, mute, tone down |
darken | (verb) become dark or darker | - |
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(verb) make dark or darker | - |
(verb) tarnish or stain | - |
darn | (verb) repair by sewing | - |
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dawn | (verb) become light | - |
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(verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: click, come home, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in |
(verb) appear or develop | - |
deaccession | (verb) sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works | - |
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deaden | (verb) become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor | - |
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(verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation | Synonyms: blunt |
(verb) lessen the momentum or velocity of | - |
(verb) make vapid or deprive of spirit | - |
(verb) convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil | - |
(verb) make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible | Synonyms: damp, dampen |
(verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: girdle |
deafen | (verb) make soundproof | - |
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(verb) make or render deaf | Synonyms: deaf |
(verb) be unbearably loud | - |
decommission | (verb) withdraw from active service | - |
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deepen | (verb) become more intense | Synonyms: intensify |
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(verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, heighten, intensify |
(verb) become deeper in tone | Synonyms: change |
(verb) make deeper | - |
dehorn | (verb) take the horns off (an animal) | - |
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(verb) prevent the growth of horns of certain animals | - |
deign | (verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, descend |
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demean | (verb) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally | Synonyms: degrade, disgrace, put down, take down |
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derequisition | (verb) release from government control | - |
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design | (verb) plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect | - |
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(verb) intend or have as a purpose | - |
(verb) create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner | - |
(verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, plan, project |
(verb) create designs | - |
(verb) conceive or fashion in the mind; invent | - |
destain | (verb) remove stain from (a laboratory specimen) to enhance contrast | - |
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detain | (verb) cause to be slowed down or delayed | Synonyms: delay, hold up |
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(verb) stop or halt | Synonyms: delay, stay |
(verb) deprive of freedom; take into confinement | Synonyms: confine |
detrain | (verb) leave a train | - |
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devein | (verb) remove the dark dorsal vein of (a shrimp) | - |
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dimension | (verb) shape or form to required dimensions | - |
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(verb) indicate the dimensions on | - |
din | (verb) instill (into a person) by constant repetition | - |
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(verb) make a resonant sound, like artillery | Synonyms: boom |
disburden | (verb) take the burden off; remove the burden from | Synonyms: unburden |
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discern | (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
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disdain | (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, spurn, turn down |
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(verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, despise, scorn |
dishearten | (verb) take away the enthusiasm of | Synonyms: put off |
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disillusion | (verb) free from enchantment | Synonyms: disenchant |
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disjoin | (verb) become separated, disconnected or disjoint | Synonyms: disjoint |
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(verb) make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of | Synonyms: disjoint |
disown | (verb) cast off | Synonyms: renounce, repudiate |
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(verb) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting | Synonyms: disinherit |
distrain | (verb) confiscate by distress | - |
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(verb) levy a distress on | - |
(verb) legally take something in place of a debt payment | - |
dizen | (verb) dress up garishly and tastelessly | Synonyms: bedizen |
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don | (verb) put clothing on one's body | Synonyms: assume, get into, put on, wear |
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down | (verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | Synonyms: fine-tune, polish, refine |
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(verb) bring down or defeat (an opponent) | - |
(verb) drink down entirely | Synonyms: belt down, bolt down, drink down, kill, pop, pour down, toss off |
(verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, demolish, devour, go through |
(verb) cause to come or go down | Synonyms: cut down, knock down, pull down, push down |
(verb) shoot at and force to come down | Synonyms: land, shoot down |
dragoon | (verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: railroad, sandbag |
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(verb) subjugate by imposing troops | - |
drain | (verb) empty of liquid; drain the liquid from | - |
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(verb) make weak | Synonyms: debilitate, enfeeble |
(verb) deplete of resources | - |
(verb) flow off gradually | Synonyms: run out |
drown | (verb) die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating | - |
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(verb) kill by submerging in water | - |
(verb) get rid of as if by submerging | - |
(verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: overwhelm, submerge |
(verb) be in danger of dying from submersion in a liquid and asphyxiation | - |
(verb) be covered with or submerged in a liquid | Synonyms: swim |
dun | (verb) make a dun color | - |
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(verb) cure by salting | - |
(verb) persistently ask for overdue payment | - |
(verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, frustrate, rag, torment |
earn | (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, clear, gain, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in |
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(verb) acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions | Synonyms: garner, win |
emblazon | (verb) decorate with heraldic arms | Synonyms: blazon |
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(verb) decorate with colors | Synonyms: color, colour |
embolden | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, hearten, recreate |
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embrown | (verb) make brown in color | Synonyms: brown |
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(verb) cause to darken | - |
enchain | (verb) restrain or bind with chains | - |
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encrimson | (verb) make crimson | - |
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enjoin | (verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: order, say, tell |
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(verb) issue an injunction | - |
enlighten | (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
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(verb) make understand | Synonyms: edify |
(verb) give spiritual insight to; in religion | Synonyms: irradiate |
enliven | (verb) make lively | Synonyms: animate, invigorate, liven, liven up |
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(verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, exalt, inspire, invigorate |
entertain | (verb) take into consideration, have in view | Synonyms: flirt with, think about, think of, toy with |
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(verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, harbor, harbour, hold, nurse |
(verb) provide entertainment for | - |
entrain | (verb) board a train | - |
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environ | (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, ring, skirt, surround |
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envision | (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
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(verb) picture to oneself; imagine possible | Synonyms: foresee |
even | (verb) become even or more even | Synonyms: even out |
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(verb) make even or more even | Synonyms: even out |
(verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even out, flush, level |
explain | (verb) make plain and comprehensible | Synonyms: explicate |
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(verb) define | - |
(verb) serve as a reason or cause or justification of | Synonyms: excuse |
falcon | (verb) hunt with falcons | - |
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fan | (verb) make (an emotion) fiercer | - |
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(verb) blow away or off with a current of air | Synonyms: winnow |
(verb) strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher) | - |
(verb) agitate the air | - |
fashion | (verb) make out of components (often in an improvising manner) | Synonyms: forge |
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fasten | (verb) make tight or tighter | Synonyms: tighten |
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(verb) become fixed or fastened | - |
(verb) cause to be firmly attached | Synonyms: fix, secure |
(verb) attach to | - |
fatten | (verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fat, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out |
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fawn | (verb) have fawns | - |
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(verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
(verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, creep, cringe, grovel |
feign | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, pretend, sham |
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(verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: assume, sham, simulate |
festoon | (verb) decorate with strings of flowers | - |
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fin | (verb) show the fins above the water while swimming | Synonyms: break water |
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(verb) propel oneself through the water in a finning motion | - |
(verb) equip (a car) with fins | - |
flatten | (verb) become flat or flatter | Synonyms: flatten out |
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(verb) make flat or flatter | - |
(verb) lower the pitch of (musical notes) | Synonyms: drop |
foreordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: predestine, preordain |
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(verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: predestinate, predestine |
foreshorten | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten |
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(verb) shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth | - |
forewarn | (verb) warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning | Synonyms: previse |
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fraction | (verb) perform a division | Synonyms: divide |
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freshen | (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: refresh, refreshen |
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(verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen up, refresh, refreshen |
(verb) make (to feel) fresh | Synonyms: refresh |
frighten | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, fright, scare |
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frown | (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: glower, lour, lower |
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function | (verb) perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function | Synonyms: officiate |
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(verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: go, operate, run, work |
(verb) serve a purpose, role, or function | Synonyms: serve |
gain | (verb) increase (one's body weight) | Synonyms: put on |
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(verb) rise in rate or price | Synonyms: advance |
(verb) increase or develop | Synonyms: gather |
(verb) obtain advantages, such as points, etc. | Synonyms: advance, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win |
(verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, hit, make, reach |
(verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, clear, earn, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in |
(verb) win something through one's efforts | Synonyms: acquire, win |
(verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: benefit, profit |
(verb) obtain | Synonyms: derive |
garden | (verb) work in the garden | - |
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garrison | (verb) station (troops) in a fort or garrison | - |
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gin | (verb) trap with a snare | - |
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(verb) separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin | - |
gladden | (verb) become glad or happy | - |
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(verb) make glad or happy | Synonyms: joy |
glean | (verb) gather, as of natural products | Synonyms: harvest, reap |
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glisten | (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glitter, shine |
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govern | (verb) exercise authority over; as of nations | Synonyms: rule |
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(verb) direct or strongly influence the behavior of | - |
(verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: order, regularise, regularize, regulate |
(verb) require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood | - |
gown | (verb) dress in a gown | - |
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grain | (verb) form into grains | Synonyms: granulate |
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(verb) become granular | Synonyms: granulate |
(verb) thoroughly work in | Synonyms: ingrain |
(verb) paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood | - |
green | (verb) turn or become green | - |
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grin | (verb) to draw back the lips and reveal the teeth, in a smile, grimace, or snarl | - |
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groan | (verb) indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure | Synonyms: moan |
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groin | (verb) build with groins | - |
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gun | (verb) shoot with a gun | - |
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happen | (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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(verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: materialise, materialize |
(verb) happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance | Synonyms: bechance, befall |
(verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, find |
(verb) chance to be or do something, without intention or causation | - |
harden | (verb) become hard or harder | Synonyms: indurate |
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(verb) make hard or harder | Synonyms: indurate |
(verb) make healthy | Synonyms: season |
(verb) cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate | Synonyms: indurate, inure |
(verb) harden by reheating and cooling in oil | Synonyms: temper |
harken | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: hark, hearken |
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harlequin | (verb) variegate with spots or marks | - |
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harpoon | (verb) spear with a harpoon | - |
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harshen | (verb) make harsh or harsher | - |
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hasten | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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(verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: induce, rush, stimulate |
(verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it |
(verb) speed up the progress of; facilitate | Synonyms: expedite |
hearken | (verb) listen; used mostly in the imperative | Synonyms: hark, harken |
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hearten | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, embolden, recreate |
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